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From: reddy@mips.COM (T.S. Reddy)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Quality of Saudi Soldier/Pilot?
Keywords: Those Fanatical Men in their Flying Machines.
Message-ID: <1990Sep27.031708.7659@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 27 Sep 90 03:17:08 GMT
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From: reddy@mips.COM (T.S. Reddy)

In article <1990Sep24.001941.24564@cbnews.att.com>, ron@hpfcso.fc.hp.com (Ron Miller) writes:
 
> I heard from Instructors at a Navy base in Texas (Beeville?) that
> training Iranians required a special tool. These guys were instructing
> in TA-4s which uses a tandem seating arrangment. 
 [...]
> All in all, makes you wonder how our elected leaders thought they were
> getting a good deal........

     But if you were being paid in hard cash for much of the hardware 
(the purchases numbering in the billions of petro$$$$s) it would be a stupid
senator (or congressman, or president), who wouldn't agree to such a
minor inconvenience.

-- 
T.S.Reddy
e-mail: reddy@mips.com